"With great care the famous Engle house, which has stood for more
than 150 years at Haines street and Germantown avenue, is being
moved from its present foundations 100 feet to the rear. The
house has never passed from the possession of the family since it
was built by Benjamin Engle in 1758. Marks of missiles fired
during the battle of Germantown are still visible in the
woodwork. Washington frequently was entertained there."

Also included in Cambell's newsclippings, postcard, sketch and
photographic images are:

a print of F.D.B. Richards' 1859 photo of Engle
House (as also found in Perkins, vol. 61D, p. 44, also at HSP.
The original photo is at the
LCP.

a newsclipping from the Philadelphia Daily Evening
Telegraph, April 22, 1905:

"Progress to Desecrate Engle Mansion"

"The old Engle mansion...is to be remodelled. It will lose some
of its distinctive Colonial features, which are to be sacrificed
in order that it may be numbered among modern dwellings.

"Workmen will set back the massive stone house, built in 1785,
some fifty feet. Numerous alterations will be made, including
the replacing of the broad and worn stone steps which bear the
imprints of generations of occupants and vistors. It is feared,
too, that the doorway, of simple yet impressive design, will be
sacrificed to the passion for progress, also the picturesque pent
roof. A number of old Germantown houses have been renovated and
remodelled, but the changes made have rarely been on the scale
proposed in the case of the old Engle homestead.

"The ancient dwelling on Main street is in an excellent state of
preservation, and bids fair to weather another century, so
solidly was it erected by Benjamin Engle, whose ancestors were
among the pioneer settlers of Germantown.

"In Colonial days the Engles were tanners, among the first in
this country, and until recently the ruins of their tannery stood
just behind the house, at the rear of which, before the days of
sewers and underdrains, a small creek bubbled which bore the name
of Honey Run. A sewer was laid on its bed.

"Past the site on which stands the old landmark marched and
fought the Colonial army and the British redcoats as Washington's
volunteers retreated to Branchtown. It is said that the Hessians
gathered all the American muskets they could find and broke them
on the big boulder that at one time stood on this site."